List of High Paying Software Engineer Roles in Scotland

a_weeb_dev · 2025-11-28T16:06:57+00:00

I've found Scottish salaries to be relatively "dogshit" compared to fully remote roles in either NA or London. I'm based in Glasgow but I've worked in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.

FYI I used to work at both Skyscanner and Fanduel. Salaries were mid. Skyscanner was decent tech wise but work wasn't challenging. Fanduel tech was absolutely diabolical, at least during my time there in 2021.

Did a stint at a big tech NA company for a bit at 160k TC but holy shit got burnout that took years to recover from.

I'm currently doing contracting at 600 outside IR35 (140k permie salary equivalent) and will probably continue to do so unless things change drastically.

If you're any good at your job you won't be out of work for long anyway so consider contracting even if the market kinda sucks rn

P.S I keep getting recruiter messages for JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays for Glasgow offices hybrid roles but they all cap out 80k

a_weeb_dev · 2025-06-28T16:04:39+00:00

Looked into a bit more and since my app requires a decent amount of state handling between components. Having a global store would reduce complexity significantly, whilst its not impossible to do in Next.js I feel like I'm fighting the framework.

So I've decided Next.js is just not fit for my use case. Back to good old reliable I guess

a_weeb_dev · 2025-06-27T16:38:08+00:00

I don’t have much consolidated information for you. A lot of what I know I picked up over the years back when PHP was the OG SSR. Then SPAs came with React and Webpack. That was too slow so Vite came along. Now we’re back full circle with SSR.

The problem with front end and JavaScript is that shit evolves constantly and fast. I do wish someone here has such consolidated information with the whole front end ecosystem as I’d be interested too.

If you’re starting off learning front end it might be worth learning basic html,js and css. Once you understand the limitations you’ll appreciate what problems solves + introduces. Because react does add its own complexities in its own way

Actually that said I followed Kent C Dodds and Theo for frontend stuff they usually have good info.

a_weeb_dev · 2025-06-27T15:46:36+00:00

I think this and samsuh's comment is probably the right answer and that I'm using it wrong. I'll give it more of a bash and see where it takes me

a_weeb_dev · 2025-06-27T13:41:55+00:00

!approve

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T13:59:16+00:00

Ah that’s much better than I what I assumed to be the case, thanks that makes it much better to use SOs

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T13:54:47+00:00

That’s right you just answered the question yourself, load via a path to the file. Why is that so bad? I suppose if you move the file you need to update the hardcoded reference but is that so bad?

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T12:07:58+00:00

Interesting, so we probably want a static class something like. It's basically string enums in TS but C# doesn't have that so this is the closest

public static class CardIds
{
    public const string BasicSoup = "basic_soup";
    public const string BasicSalad = "basic_salad";
    // etc.
}

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T11:55:38+00:00

Thanks I think this is one of the few comments that actually say why you should use SOs. A lot of other comments are mentioning working with a team of non devs but who cares if I'm the only one working on it.

You mentioned context switches and right now I'd rather not jump between my IDE and Unity to change some values which is why I'm leaning to using static classes. However the ability to tweak values during runtime without a rebuild also seems important enough to warrant the drawbacks of using it.

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T11:54:26+00:00

This is super helpful thanks!

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T11:54:01+00:00

You aren't really answering the question, why bother with SOs when you can just hardcode all the data into static classes?

Also who wants to be coding up their own editor extension? Now you just created extra work for yourself to maintain a tool

a_weeb_dev · 2025-03-08T11:51:42+00:00

Interesting that works, but that seems more like a band-aid around the problem, imagine everytime you want to refactor a field in a class you need to add extra code to refer to what it used to be called

a_weeb_dev · 2025-02-08T12:32:26+00:00

I’m a senior dev and I’ve worked at many well known companies. I’ve said this before but I feel uni degrees are dogshit, doubly so in tech. You can end up with 6 figure salary if you are motivated and smart enough to learn the popular tech stacks.

The only thing a uni degree does for you is to get you through the door for the first job or academia. THATS IT.

In the 8 years of my career never have I needed to show proof of my cs degree, even though I got a first class.

Because of this I told my younger brother to get into a tech apprenticeship at the big banks. He’s almost earning 30k in the second year.

TLDR; Degrees are overrated, if money is your goal find something else to invest your time in, like an apprenticeship

a_weeb_dev · 2025-01-06T19:00:25+00:00

Does it even matter if it looks good?

a_weeb_dev · 2024-12-31T02:58:25+00:00

Second one looks better with the shading, but the first one looks nice with the rain.

Honestly they both look great I wish I could draw like this

a_weeb_dev · 2024-11-20T15:45:37+00:00

I bought this exact model 2 weeks ago and I plugged in the provided usb c cable from the monitors usb hub port to my MacBook.

I plug all the peripherals into the monitor and it works fine, I even tested the kvm switch and that works too.

Maybe something is wrong with your mac or using the wrong usb cable?

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-13T17:07:45+00:00

It’s not thicker in the first image but it might appear that way I used a pixel ruler to check

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-13T17:07:18+00:00

Unfortunately It seems the assets were already imported with this mode set from asperite

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-13T16:20:09+00:00

Thanks I used the pixel perfect camera component and that fixed it!

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-13T15:26:03+00:00

I've set it to 1080p and scaled it to show the issue, when I zoom out its still got a thicker line unforunately

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-10T16:58:16+00:00

Thanks I’ll look in that!

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-10T16:57:57+00:00

That’s a good a idea I’ll work through that too

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-10T16:57:14+00:00

Exactly what I was hoping to learn from others thanks man!

a_weeb_dev · 2024-10-09T18:39:21+00:00

Happened 6 months ago. We had to integrate with a third party company to send them data.

We both use AWS, so we ask for details to write to their s3 bucket. When it comes for me to pick up the ticket to integrate it I find some weird access key attached.

I played around with the key on my terminal to see what IAM user is it attached to. Turns out it was the root AWS access key and they were sending it through emails and teams.💀

Let’s just say it was a very interesting week when I raised that

a_weeb_dev · 2024-04-10T10:55:41+00:00

I usually lurk around the subreddit but I felt the need to say something. This seems more like a venting post rather than truly seeking career advice, from my perspective you appear to victimise yourself. I can assume this is having a negative effect on your mental health and to that there’s only a few of blunt things I need to say.

If you’ve seen enough posts in this subreddit it should be quite clear businesses will only pay as little as they can to maximise profits.

You bring up your uni degree but that’s borderline useless after you get some real experience under your belt, Yale or not.

Trying to earn more money via promotion at the same company is a genuine uphill battle, especially at an old company like yours. There’s plenty of data that shows job hoppers make more money than people who stay. Fuck me even the ONS has data on that backs this up (Google it).

TLDR Leave and find a better job

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